Submarines in a sentence

When I joined submarines 35 years ago, Peter, I was told that the oceans were going to become transparent and so submarines would be obsolete.

As deadly as these submarines are, bristling with torpedoes, mines and guided missiles, and powered by nuclear power plants, they actually haven't encountered combat in the same way older submarines did.

Just this latest figure is a staggering sum, enough to build 10 Columbia-class nuclear submarines to add to our ailing Navy, where 40 percent of our existing attack submarines cannot get out of dry dock due to maintenance backlogs.

New London/Groton has been building nuclear submarines since the 1950s and the U.S. naval base here is home port to 15 nuclear attack submarines.

Under the Navantia-L&T agreement, Navantia will design the P-75I submarines, and L&T will construct the submarines.

Eighteen Ohio-class submarines were built—fourteen serve on as ballistic missile submarines while four were rearmed with conventional Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Submarines using AIP systems have evolved into larger, more heavily armed and more expensive types, including the German Dolphin-class and the French Scorpene-class submarines.

Ozawa had the majority of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s fighting fleet under his command at the time, but his force of approximately ninety ships and submarines was still considerably smaller than the U.S. Navy’s 129 ships and submarines.

And the levels are as much as 12 times higher in submarines than background levels — yet no one in classrooms or submarines are dying as a result of these higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

From an economic perspective, the development of unmanned submarines holds the advantage over the possible development of manned submarines.

The P-8 anti-submarine plane is designed to hunt, find and destroy submarines, especially those great-power submarines potentially armed with nuclear missiles.

Air-independent propulsion main German Type XXI submarine During World War II, German Type XXI submarines (also known as "Elektroboote") were the first submarines designed to operate submerged for extended periods.

Attack submarines Some of these submarines (the George Washington class) were fleet ballistic missile boats for the vast majority of their careers.

Ballistic missile submarines Some of these submarines (the Lafayette class) were fleet ballistic missile boats for the vast majority of their careers.

Equipment Ships and submarines seeAlso In total, there are about 81 commissioned ships in the German Navy, including 5 submarines, 10 frigates and 21 auxiliary ships.

If the project goes ahead, it will replace the submarines with a new generation of Successor-class strategic submarines.

Late modern era 18th century submarines By the mid-18th century, over a dozen patents for submarines/submersible boats had been granted in England.

List of Type IIC submarines There were eight Type IIC submarines commissioned Type IID The Type IID had additional saddle tanks fitted to the sides of the external hull.

Originally Libya received six submarines from the Soviet union in 1982, but it is very unlikely that the submarines are still operational.

The first production submarines with this system were the Porpoise-class of the 1930s, and it was used on most subsequent US diesel submarines through the 1960s.